UFOMYST
CaseSphere2017

Staten Island, NY, USA

One golden orb.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

  • Duration parsed: 150s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (15 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-09-03
Where
Staten Island, NY, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
2-3 minutes
Geo
40.562, -74.140 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-staten-island-ny-2017-980de9
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

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In context

  • Staten Island, NY shows up 65 times across the archive.
  • 187 reports came from New York in 2017.
  • In the 2010s, 7.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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